gnocchi with brown butter and sage

January 26th, 2009

Before I get started, prepare to run out right now and buy some butter and sage, because this recipe will rock your world. It’s ridiculously simple but so, so delicious. I’d seen it a while ago and put off making it for some silly reason, but when I found myself with a whole lotta gnocchi I thought brown butter would go great with it.

So the basic gist of the recipe is to melt butter and then place a bunch of sage leaves in the butter until they get crispy. At the same time, the butter will begin to get brown while taking in some of the flavors from the sage. Once the edges of the sage start to curl, remove them. The butter starts to get perfectly brown at around the same time, so you just add a little stock and a lot of parmesan and taadaa.

When the sauce was combined, I added my already cooked gnocchi and made sure it was well coated. I then topped it off with the sage and a little parmesan. I was not prepared for the awesomeness of fried sage. If I would have been, I would have fried more of it. When you put a sage leaf on your tongue it almost immediatly dissolves. It’s this magical little piece of goodness. It’s enhanced by the brown butter and the gnocchi provides a nice vehicle for it all. But really, the sage is the star of this show.

Comments: 4 Total

Awesome, I’m definitely trying this (just have to make successful gnocchi first)! I just finished eating the leftovers from my most recent fried sage-including creation. It’s one of my new favorite foods for sure!

Thanks so much for this. This might sound weird, but I spent the first couple of years of my teenage lifein Italy, then travelled around the world. Now I’m living in New Zealand, with my Chinese wife, and son we had whilst in Japan! Truly international, eh? Anyway, I’ve been trying to rediscover the smells and tastes of my youth with some authentic Italian recipe like these, best I’ve found so far! Thanks again, I’ll see if I can add the feed to my google reader tonight, though my son usually does that for me!

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